PBK Visiting Scholar lecture: Dr. Corey D.B. Walker

Augustana College hosts Dr. Corey D.B. Walker, a Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholar, on Oct. 2-3. Dr. Walker is the Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities with a joint appointment in the department of English and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program at Wake Forest University. He will present "'On Earth As It Is': On Ethics and the Environment in the Age of the Anthropocene" on Oct. 2. The lecture is free and open to the public. Livestream.

Presentation summary:

Today, we face an existential threat to the very future of humanity as a result of human-induced climate change.

This threat forces us to confront the necessity for deliberate and committed action to create new forms of sustainable human community. Dr. Walker calls for a broad conception of environmental ethics as a critical and necessary response to our contemporary climate crisis.